A headline exhibition at the National Motor Museum - which offers a fascinating look at how the future of the motor car was imagined in the past - is being sponsored by the UK’s leading vehicle leasing broker.
Select Car Leasing will support the exhibition that will look at concepts from the past, ideas that have become reality and future visions for automobility.
Motopia? Past Future Visions will open on the 20th May 2023 and will run until the 14 April 2024 at the museum, located at Beaulieu in the New Forest, Hampshire.
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The event will display landmark vehicles like the plug-in hybrid Volkswagen XL1 (above), the forward-thinking yet ill-fated Sinclair C5, as well as a Columbia Electric vehicle (below) first built more than a century ago in 1901.
David Lewis, Head of Electric Vehicles & Energy at Select Car Leasing, said:
“We are delighted to be the lead sponsor of the National Motor Museum’s headline exhibition for 2023-24. The vehicle leasing industry is currently undergoing a radical transition into electric mobility. Echoes of this dramatic change reverberate around the Motopia exhibition, as visitors will discover how the electrification of transport was originally conceived many decades ago. Car design is, of course, constantly in flux – with innovation heralding more efficient and sustainable drivetrains – and we look forward to working with the National Motor Museum in the coming months to highlight how the car continues to shape people’s lives.”
Michelle Kirwan, the National Motor Museum's Head of Development said,
“The Museum has ambitious plans for development over the coming decade and we value the support companies such as Select Car Leasing whose assistance will secure funding for exhibitions and events that will focus on the future of automobility as well as Britain’s motoring heritage.”
The Motopia? Past Future Visions exhibition will have four key themes; vehicle visions will look at car design concepts, propulsion asking how our vehicles are powered – particularly timely when there is a resurgence of electric vehicles, architectural dreams which will include science fiction visions, and urban solutions showing how vehicles have constantly been re-imagined to suit our needs and surroundings.
Since 2019, Select Car Leasing has had a dedicated Select Electric presence, offering an extensive range of fully-electric and hybrid lease vehicles. The Select Electric division also hosts a comprehensive range of customer guides which explore all of the many different facets of electrified motoring.
Motopia? Past Future Visions will be included in the ticket price for the Beaulieu attraction.
The National Motor Museum Trust Limited is a charitable organization founded in 1972, which runs the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in the New Forest. Continuing the work of the flagship Montagu Motor Museum, the Trust has a world-famous collection of 250 vehicles and associated motoring items, which are on display in the National Motor Museum.
The nearby Collections Centre houses and cares for a vast array of motoring artefacts, photographic images, specialist reference library and film and video library.
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